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New Anonymous User Identification and Key Establishment Protocol in Distributed Networks

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Distributed Computing – IWDC 2005 (IWDC 2005)

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Recently, Wu and Hsu showed that Lee and Chang’s anonymous user identification and key establishment protocol was insecure with regard to two attacks and proposed an improved protocol, called the WH protocol. In this paper, we show that the WH protocol is still vulnerable to an unknown-key share attack. Then, we propose an improved protocol to address this problem by applying a mutual authentication method.

This research was supported by the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Assessment).

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  1. Department of Information Security, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, Republic of Korea

    Woo-Hun Kim

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, Republic of Korea

    Kee-Young Yoo

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Ajit Pal

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607, Chicago, Illinois

    Ajay D. Kshemkalyani

  3. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, 721 302, Kharagpur, WB, India

    Rajeev Kumar

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 721 302, Kharagpur, India

    Arobinda Gupta

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Kim, WH., Yoo, KY. (2005). New Anonymous User Identification and Key Establishment Protocol in Distributed Networks. In: Pal, A., Kshemkalyani, A.D., Kumar, R., Gupta, A. (eds) Distributed Computing – IWDC 2005. IWDC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3741. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11603771_46

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